Disgrace vs Demean - What's the difference?
disgrace | demean |
The condition of being out of favor; loss of favor, regard, or respect.
* Shakespeare
The state of being dishonored, or covered with shame; dishonor; shame; ignominy.
That which brings dishonor; cause of shame or reproach; great discredit; as, vice is a disgrace to a rational being.
(obsolete) An act of unkindness; a disfavor.
* Francis Bacon
To disrespect another; to put someone out of favor.
To debase; to lower; to degrade.
* Thackeray
To humble, humble oneself; to humiliate.
To mortify.
To manage; to conduct; to treat.
* Milton
To conduct; to behave; to comport; followed by the reflexive pronoun.
* Shakespeare
* Clarendon
(archaic) Management; treatment.
* Spenser
(archaic) Behavior; conduct; bearing; demeanor.
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , V.5:
*:‘When thou hast all this doen, then bring me newes / Of his demeane […].’
* West
As nouns the difference between disgrace and demean
is that disgrace is disgrace while demean is (archaic) management; treatment or demean can be demesne.As a verb demean is
to debase; to lower; to degrade or demean can be to manage; to conduct; to treat.disgrace
English
(wikipedia disgrace)Noun
(en noun)- Macduff lives in disgrace .
- the interchange continually of favours and disgraces
Verb
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English
Etymology 1
(1595) From . Compare English (m).Verb
(en verb)- Her son would demean himself by a marriage with an artist's daughter.
Synonyms
* debase * lower * degradeEtymology 2
From (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- [Our] clergy have with violence demeaned the matter.
- They have demeaned themselves / Like men born to renown by life or death.
- They answered that they should demean themselves according to their instructions.
Noun
- vile demean and usage bad
- with grave demean and solemn vanity